It's been nearly two months since the first bombshell report about Harvey Weinstein's decades of alleged sexual abuse was published, and the accusations of sexual assault and harassment against other powerful men in Hollywood and beyond continues. On Monday, One Tree Hill cast and crew members came together to pen a letter in which they not only showed their support sexual assault and harassment survivors, including Audrey Wauchope, one of the show's writers, who has accused showrunner Mark Schwahn of longtime sexual abuse last week via Twitter. The cast and crew also backed up her accusations with their own claims of Schwahn's misconduct.

The letter was shared with Variety and signed by all of the teen drama's female cast members — including Hilarie Burton, who previously accused Ben Affleck of groping on TRL — and several crew members. Eighteen women signed the letter which condemned the actions of Schwahn, who helmed the show for all eight seasons, as well as the culture of silence and denial on set that forced them to keep quiet about their experiences. Burton, Sophia Bush, and other signers shared the letter on social media using the hashtags #BurnItDownSis and #FuckYourSorry.

Not long after Variety published the letter, other members of the One Tree Hill family (including several male cast and crew members) also showed their support for Wauchope and the other women who were harassed by Schwahn. Chad Michael Murray retweeted Burton's link to the letter while costars James Lafferty, Austin Nichols, Antwon Tanner, Lee Norris, and Stephen Colletti shared their own statements of support on Twitter.

"All of the female cast members of One Tree Hill have chosen this forum to stand together in support of Audrey Wauchope and one another. To use terminology that has become familiar as the systemic reality of sexual harassment and assault has come more and more to light, Mark Schwahn's behavior over the duration of the filming of One Tree Hill was something of an "open secret." Many of us were, to varying degrees, manipulated psychologically and emotionally. More than one of us is still in treatment for post-traumatic stress. Many of us were put in uncomfortable positions and had to swiftly learn to fight back, sometimes physically, because it was made clear to us that the supervisors in the room were not the protectors they were supposed to be. Many of us were spoken to in ways that ran the spectrum from deeply upsetting to traumatizing to downright illegal. And a few of us were put in positions where we felt physically unsafe. More than one woman on our show had her career trajectory threatened.

"The through line in all of this was, and still is, our unwavering support of and faith in one another. We confided in each other. We set up safe spaces to talk about his behavior and how to handle it. To warn new women who joined our ranks. We understood that a lot of it was orchestrated in ways that kept it out of sight for the studio back home. We also understood that no one was fully unaware. The lack of action that has been routine, the turning of the other cheek, is intolerable. We collectively want to echo the calls of women everywhere that vehemently demand change, in all industries.

"Many of us were told, during filming, that coming forward to talk about this culture would result in our show being canceled and hundreds of lovely, qualified, hard-working, and talented people losing their jobs. This is not an appropriate amount of pressure to put on young girls. Many of us since have stayed silent publicly but had very open channels of communication in our friend group and in our industry, because we want Tree Hill to remain the place 'where everything's better and everything's safe' for our fans; some of whom have said that the show quite literally saved their lives. But the reality is, no space is safe when it has an underlying and infectious cancer. We have worked at taking our power back, making the conventions our own, and relishing in the good memories. But there is more work to be done.

"We are all deeply grateful for Audrey's courage. For one another. And for every male cast mate and crew member who has reached out to our group of women to offer their support these last few days. They echo the greater rallying cry that must lead us to change: Believe women. We are all in this together."